VACN.Y Stock Overview

Develops, manufactures, and supplies vacuum valves, multi-valve units, vacuum modules, and edge-welded metal bellows in Switzerland, rest of Europe, the United States, Japan, Korea, Singapore, China, rest of Asia, and internationally. More details

VACN.Y fundamental analysis
Snowflake Score
Valuation	2/6
Future Growth	5/6
Past Performance	3/6
Financial Health	6/6
Dividends	1/6

Rewards

Trading at 24.7% below our estimate of its fair value

Earnings are forecast to grow 21.72% per year

Risk Analysis

Dividend of 1.75% is not well covered by earnings or free cash flows

My Notes

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Price History & Performance

Summary of share price highs, lows and changes for VAT Group
Historical stock prices
Current Share Price	CHF 39.37
52 Week High	CHF 59.72
52 Week Low	CHF 36.72
Beta	1.18
1 Month Change	2.34%
3 Month Change	-21.15%
1 Year Change	-17.66%
3 Year Change	-17.58%
5 Year Change	n/a
Change since IPO	146.06%

Recent updates

Shareholder Returns

	VACN.Y	US Machinery	US Market
7D	-1.2%	-6.4%	-4.0%
1Y	-17.7%	14.1%	24.0%

Return vs Industry: VACN.Y underperformed the US Machinery industry which returned 16.5% over the past year.

Return vs Market: VACN.Y underperformed the US Market which returned 26.1% over the past year.

Price Volatility

Is VACN.Y's price volatile compared to industry and market?
VACN.Y volatility
VACN.Y Average Weekly Movement	4.7%
Machinery Industry Average Movement	5.7%
Market Average Movement	6.4%
10% most volatile stocks in US Market	16.8%
10% least volatile stocks in US Market	3.2%

Stable Share Price: VACN.Y has not had significant price volatility in the past 3 months compared to the US market.

Volatility Over Time: VACN.Y's weekly volatility (5%) has been stable over the past year.

About the Company

Founded	Employees	CEO	Website
1965	2,983	Urs Gantner	www.vatvalve.com

VAT Group AG, together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and supplies vacuum valves, multi-valve units, vacuum modules, and edge-welded metal bellows in Switzerland, rest of Europe, the United States, Japan, Korea, Singapore, China, rest of Asia, and internationally. It operates through two segments, Valves and Global Service. The Valves segment offers vacuum valves for the semiconductor, displays, photovoltaics, and vacuum coating industries, as well as for the industrial and research sector.

VAT Group AG Fundamentals Summary

How do VAT Group's earnings and revenue compare to its market cap?
VACN.Y fundamental statistics
Market cap	US$11.91b
Earnings (TTM)	US$222.20m
Revenue (TTM)	US$978.46m

53.6x

P/E Ratio

12.2x

P/S Ratio

Is VACN.Y overvalued?

See Fair Value and valuation analysis

Earnings & Revenue

Key profitability statistics from the latest earnings report (TTM)
VACN.Y income statement (TTM)
Revenue	CHF 881.17m
Cost of Revenue	CHF 337.07m
Gross Profit	CHF 544.10m
Other Expenses	CHF 344.00m
Earnings	CHF 200.11m

Last Reported Earnings

Jun 30, 2024

Next Earnings Date

Jan 09, 2025

Earnings per share (EPS)	6.67
Gross Margin	61.75%
Net Profit Margin	22.71%
Debt/Equity Ratio	0.3%

How did VACN.Y perform over the long term?

See historical performance and comparison

Dividends

1.7%

Current Dividend Yield

94%

Payout Ratio

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2024/12/18 09:34
End of Day Share Price	2024/12/18 00:00
Earnings	2024/06/30
Annual Earnings	2023/12/31

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

^* example for US securities, for non-US equivalent regulatory forms and sources are used.

Unless specified all financial data is based on a yearly period but updated quarterly. This is known as Trailing Twelve Month (TTM) or Last Twelve Month (LTM) Data. Learn more here.

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Analyst Sources

VAT Group AG is covered by 30 analysts. 17 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
Zana Mamelli	Baader Helvea Equity Research
Volker Bosse	Baader Helvea Equity Research
Emrah Basic	Baader Helvea Equity Research